Sunday, June 28, 2015

Ted 2

Although I did enjoy some of the gross-out
humor of the film Ted, overall I found it too stupid to be really enjoyable.

However, Writer/Producer/Director Seth
MacFarlane’s Ted 2 is, in many respects, a bear of a different color.

Unfortunately, it does start out with enough
gross-out language and humor to drive some of the audience out of the theater,
but, then, it settles down to have a worthy story that, when it’s followed, is actually
engaging.(Ted wants to have a child to
keep his marriage to his ditsy wife, joyfully played by Jessica Barth, from
falling apart. But, he has to prove he’s a person in order to be able to adopt.)

But, there are constant segues and detours,
some of which are cruel, that get in the way of the story’s flow.It’s almost as if MacFarlane is afraid to
show his softer and, to my way of thinking, more effective side.It seems like he feels he has to constantly
prove he’s a bad boy to have any credence with his followers.Hopefully, he’ll grow out of that and do some
really funny work.If only…Oh, well…

The film is at its best in bits played by
Liam Neeson and football great Tom Brady, plus a night scene in the country
where Amanda Seyfried (Ted’s lawyer) plays guitar and sings quite beautifully.

About Me

Brian Porzak: I am a cinephile who likes to view films with a live audience. My taste runs the gamut, including indies, studio films, foreign films and most all genres. Because I see so many films, friends often ask me what to see. So, I thought I'd blog about what is worth seeing or not. As a writer/filmmaker myself, I hope to give a more uplifting perspective than the typical critic. Filmmaking is tremendously difficult. Just because some problems might exist in a particular work does not, necessarily, destroy its enjoyability and I think that is necessary to point out to would-be viewers.
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